DVSTC | Creativity Training, Train‑the‑Trainer Workshops & STEM Kits in India

Vocational Skills Training & Autism Empowerment

Since 1986, Dynam Vocational Skills Training Centre (DVSTC) has been focussed on empowering adolescents and young adults with intellectual disabilities to transition successfully from the world of learning to the world of work.

About DVSTC

DVSTC (now known as Dynam Andal Vocational Training Centre) trains young adults to lead a productive and meaningful life. The core objective of our training program is overall personality development which also includes inculcating excellent work ethic and value systems.

DVSTC was founded by Smt. Thangam Rajagopalan, an outstanding special educator and Sri. Hari Parameswaran (Founder – Dynam Group). Now, powered by Andal Cares, DVSTC is geared to extend it’s highly successful model to support many more individuals.

Holistic approach...
immense Possibilities !!

Our mission to make the transition from the world of learning to the world of work, as smooth as possible

THE VISION: Empower the differently abled to become an asset to the family and society

DVSTC have always had a team of extremely well trained, focussed and committed faculty. With a curated and expanding set of activities the trainees are taught to ensure that they succeed in their world of work once their intense training is completed.

Journey of Dynam-Andal Vocational Skills Training Centre (DVSTC)

Dedicated to support adults with intellectual disabilities

As a testament of our work and experiences across many decades, most of DVSTCs alumni are either successfully employed in a broad range of industries or self-employed. Every alumni’s success story propels into continuous development and improvement.

1986 April

Working under the aegis of Dynam Engineering Corporation Shri. Hari Parameswaran

6, Haudin Road, Ulsoor, Humble beginning with one student

1986 April

1994 January

Over 20 students completed training successfully

Armstrong Road, Shivaji Nagar

1994 January

1996 October

Over 200 students completed their training successfully. Set up an exclusive -production training unit

Mrs. Pramila Jalan provided a large space for DVSTC.

1996 October

2024 September

Enrichment with the enrolment of students with Autism

Andal Building, Chellikere.

Courtesy Shri. Govind Bommi

2024 September

Dynam - The Mothership

Origins of Dynam

It all began in a garage in Bangalore, not with a business plan, but with a belief — that Indian children deserved to learn science through wonder, not rote. When Hari Parameswaran returned from engineering college, his father, K.G. Parameswaran, asked where he’d like to go next — the US, Germany, Sweden? Hari’s answer was different: “I want to stay and build something here.”

That ‘something’ became Dynam. Alongside his brother Gopi, Hari handcrafted India’s first electrical science kit — 60 experiments from a simple bulb to a working motor, designed to teach through doing. The first run received only a 0.1% response rate, but instead of quitting, Hari and Gopi packed their kits on a scooter and visited schools in person — proving quality face to face.

Visit www.dynamcreativity.com for more information on Dynam, Hari Parameswaran and to see the width of Dynam Groups’ work.

About Hari Parameswaran

Hari is the founder of several impactful initiatives, including the Young Inventor Award, Dynam Creativity Programmes, and the Dynam Vocational Skill Training Centre(DVSTC) for individuals with intellectual disabilities in Bangalore. He and his team regularly conduct Discovery Science Programs in schools and offers teacher training workshops focused on creative education. A sought-after creativity consultant, Hari has conducted workshops and innovation sessions for leading institutions and industries across India and internationally.

Hari has also worked extensively with the Technical Training Centre for the Deaf, training India’s first batch of hearing-impaired students in electronics. His life’s mission continues to be empowering education through creativity, hands-on learning, and inclusive innovation.

Hari has also proudly represented India at international educational fairs including DIDACTA in Germany, the Gulf Education and Training Fair in Dubai….

Andal Cares Trust

Govind Bommi established the Andal Cares Fund in honour of his mother to support eldercare causes amongst others.

Govind Bommi’s mother, Andal, had always been a strong influence in his life since he was a child.

Govind’s family was not well-to-do, living in a modest house in Bangalore, India. His parents had six children and lived off a single income. Yet, Govind’s mother was generous, even to strangers, he recalled. Despite having little, she would set aside a portion of cooked food – not leftovers – for beggars who would come around in the evening. He said, “She believed that if you had enough, you should share it with others because we are only temporary keepers of what we own.”

Govind a very successful industrialist, is today, a totally focussed philanthropist with many grassroot projects across the world running under the auspices of Andal Cares.

DVSTC - The People

Thangam Rajagopal - Centre Head

Smt. Thangam Rajagopal has been the chief resource person of Dynam Vocational Skills Training Centre, imparting vocational training and personality development skills to young adults with special needs for the past 40 years. She completed a course in Special Education from KPAMRC (now called as KPACIDD) in the year 1985-86.

Dynam Vocational Skills Training Centre was started on 28th April 1986. Since its inception she has been working with young adults with intellectual disabilities and has worked with children with Autism since 1996. She and her very committed team have trained more than 200 students with special needs and it is interesting to know that all of them are either in mainstream jobs or self-employed after their training!

She has conducted inumerable creativity workshops for:
• Teachers of government and private schools
• Special educators
• Children in regular schools
• Students, parents and teachers of special schools
• National integration camps for neuro diverse children and their escorts under the aegis of the FWMR in different cities.

She has also assisted Sri. Hari Parmeswaran in many creativity workshops for corporates like, Honeywell, Himalayas, BEL, ITI and so on.

Smt. Thangam has been conferred the prestigious Dr.M C Modi Memorial Award in October 2024, for her selfless service to children with special needs.

She has been conferred the ‘Lifetime Contribution Award’ by IRC (Information and Resource Centre) Bangalore in 2018, at the Kalaangana Annual Fest. In 2014, she was also recognized for her ‘Outstanding Achievement’ by Quality Circles Forum of India on International Women’s’ Day. In addition, the Rotary Club of Bangalore and Banjara Academy have recognized her pioneering and exemplary work done in developing a remarkable institution for the children with special needs.

In 1997, on our 50th Independence day, DVSTC received an award for organising a National Integration Camp for more than 350 children with special needs and their escorts at Jigani, Bangalore.

DVSTC Faculty – L to R: Jayanthi, Mangalam, Thangam, Uma R, Uma S, Radhika, Marina

SMT. THANGAM RAJAGOPALAN ON HER JOURNEY | REFLECTION AND INTROSPECTION!

Indeed 40 years is a long period by any stretch of imagination, but… to me it seems like we started DVSTC just ‘the other day’. Every moment of these 40 years is etched fresh in my memory as though it just happened. I would like to go further down the memory lane….

As a little girl of 5yrs, I used to play a game where I would be the teacher. All the items in each room would be my students. I would stand in front of every piece of furniture in the living room and say ‘I am a teacher, but different’ (In my mother tongue Tamil ‘naan oru teacher aana vera madiri’). Then I would go into the kitchen where all the spoons, plates and glasses would be the students. My final session of the day would be inside the pooja room. Standing in front of the altar, I would address every deity in the picture and would repeat ‘I am a teacher but different’ I would hold the idols in my tiny hands and repeat the same lesson. This game, I would religiously play thrice everyday for a couple of years. The seed of being a ‘different teacher’ was sown by God at that age. As the years rolled by, the thought went deeper into my sub-conscious and super-conscious levels.

In my growing years I often felt… ‘why isn’t this teacher teaching in a way I can understand?’. God has bestowed his blessings on me. In 1982 I met the right person at the right time – none other than Sri. Hari Parameswaran. He has been my mentor and guide since then. His motivation and confidence in my abilities has helped me evolve into the person I am today. When I started working as a teacher it was neither my passion, profession nor an occupation or vocation. For me, even today, it is a Prayer and an offering …a response to a divine call… the seed of which was sown by God at that tender age. I have dedicated my life to the cause of empowering children with special education needs. I have always considered myself as Yashoda maiya of these wonderful Krishnas and Krishnavenis. I realised the depth of the statement. ‘I am a teacher, but different’. I have become that teacher who is making a difference in their lives, transforming them into enabled, empowered, self-confident and wonderful human beings.

As I reflect the 40 years of my wonderful time with these children I feel I am a very blessed soul and my guru. Sri Paramahansa Yogananda made me realise why God created me. Jai Guru